Welcome to our Cabinet of Curiosities!*
*[in its 2026 iteration]
To see details of each course, hit the relevant Course details button[s].
Alternatively, if you instantly know what you’d like, you can access anything from our archive of 2024’s courses by heading to our Registration Form.
Either way, for access to any archive course, please select the Cabinet of Curiosities option (RJW A2601) on the Registration Form, and tell us in the message which course[s] you’d like (or, if you’d prefer, just complete a contact form message or email me!).
Two quick practicalities.
First, as a reminder in case you’ve not yet viewed one of our recordings: Q&A/discussion elements are edited out, for data protection reasons. What remains is a full set of Robertian Pearls of Wisdom (TM) on your chosen subject[s].
Secondly, do, of course, ignore the original dates on each course details page. Your recordings will be available as soon as we’ve sent confirmation of your registration.
All recordings will be available until 23 October 2026.
Access to any course is a flat single person rate (even if there will be two of you watching), as listed on each course’s page.
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The Aeneid: Rome’s great epic
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SPQR: The rise and fall of the Roman Republic
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The Ottoman Empire
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The Encircled Sea: Mediterranean civilization through the ages
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The Mughals
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Monet
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Christina of Markyate: A life in Anglo-Norman England
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Decadence and Delirium: The dark side of nineteenth-century art
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Gilgamesh: The world’s first epic
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Anglo-Saxon England
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Olympian Dreamers: Late Victorian Classicism
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Mezzogiorno: A history of Southern Italy and Sicily
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The East India Company
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Soldiers of Christ: Templars, Hospitallers, and Teutonic Knights
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Caligula
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Beowulf
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Hogarth, Gillray, and Daumier: The not-so-subtle art of satire
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Nero
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The Great Palaces: Worlds of power and wonder
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The Art of Joy: Renoir
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Ibn Battuta: The first global tourist?
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The Borgias: Sex, power, and blood all over the place
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The Celts: History, art, and culture
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Holy Roman Empire
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At the Crossroads: A history of Eastern Europe
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The Indian Rebellion
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The Wanderers: The beauty of Russian Realism
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The Hittites: Lost empire of the ancient world
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The Art of China
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The Flavians
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Turner, Constable, and the Romantic English Landscape